New Adult Standing Order

New Adult Standing Order

June 27, 2008

Annotations from Baker & Taylor

A Spoonful of Poison

Beaton, M. C.

The 19th Agatha Raisin mystery from best-selling author Beaton features a new love interest, a village church fair, and poisoned jam at a tasting booth. The author lives in the English Cotswolds and in Paris.

 

Being Elizabeth

Bradford, Barbara Taylor

As she rises to the heights of the corporate world, Elizabeth Deravenel becomes the most powerful Managing Director in the history of the Deravenel business empire, only to find herself surrounded by corporate intrigue, takeover threats, betrayal, and scandal as she must make a choice between love and duty.

 

The Gypsy Morph

Brooks, Terry

With the fall of the last cities, demons and other minions of the dark roam the ravaged landscape of the former United States, while a small band of survivors–the Elves of Cintra, a ragtag group of human children, and their protectors, including two Knights of the Word–journeys northward toward a safe haven, led by a boy named Hawk, the legendary gypsy morph.

 

Cypress Nights

Cameron, Stella

When murder and mayhem plague St. Cecil’s church, Roche Savage, a renowned psychiatrist with a dark secret, and widow Bleu Labeau, a reticent teacher who has come to Toussaint to start a new school, join forces to solve the mystery–an investigation that reveals the deadly truth about their town.

 

The Brass Verdict

Connelly, Michael

Mickey Haller takes the case of a Hollywood lawyer who’s been murdered–and discovers that the killer is now after him.

 

Scarpetta

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

The NYPD asks Kay Scarpetta to examine a handcuffed man who claims to have been injured during the course of a murder. Did he kill someone, or is the killer after him? A BOMC, Literary Guild, Doubleday, and Mystery Guild main selection.

 

The Gate House

DeMille, Nelson

Years after his wife killed her Mafia lover, John Sutter finds himself living in the gate house of her family’s grand estate–and contending with the victim’s enraged son.

 

Dark Curse

Feehan, Christine

Escaping the clutches of her evil father to pursue her Carpathian destiny as a Dragonseeker, Lara Calladine is tormented by nightmares that may hold the key to the dark secrets of her childhood and joins forces with the arrogant and dangerously seductive Nicolas De La Cruz to uncover the truth about both of their pasts.

 

The Keepsake

Gerritsen, Tess

Invited to witness the X-ray scanning of a mummy, medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the mummy is not centuries old, but rather is a recent murder victim, and joins forces with Boston PD detective Jane Rizzoli in an investigation that uncovers other similar crimes tied to a diabolical predator who has already targeted his next victim.

 

Rough Justice

Higgins, Jack

Sent to Kosovo on a mission to report on the status in the troubled region, agent Blake Johnson joins forces with British operative Harry Miller to stop a Russian officer in the act of torching a mosque, a lethal action that will have profound repercussions for both agents, but also for Sean Dillon, the intelligence community, and the governments of the U.S., Britain, and Russia.

 

The Phoenix Endangered

Lackey, Mercedes / Mallory, James

A second installment of a trilogy that began with The Phoenix Unchained finds aspiring High Mage Tiercel and reluctant Knight-Mage Harrier working on their powers while witnessing devastating attacks by the Wild Mage Bisochim, and while young Shaira leads the desert tribespeople toward a legendary oasis.

 

The Given Day

Lehane, Dennis

Lehane goes for something different with a family epic set after World War I. With a one-day laydown on September 23; an 11-city tour and reading group guide.

 

The Longing

Lewis, Beverly

No Annotation

 

The Book of Lies

Meltzer, Brad

Unexpectedly meeting his long-lost father at the moment of a brutal attack by a would-be killer bearing the ancient mark of the biblical Cain, Cal Harper is unwittingly thrust into a high-stakes pursuit of a fortuitous enigmatic weapon that links him to the Bible’s first killing as well as the murder that inspired the creation of the comic-book hero Superman.

 

Burn Out

Muller, Marcia

“Here is Marcia Muller’s stalwart heroine Sharon McCone as you’ve never seen her before, in a new novel set in California’s high desert country”.

 

Rough Weather

Parker, Robert B.

Spenser is acting as bodyguard for the rich and recently separated Heidi, who’s traveled to her own private island for her daughter’s wedding, when bad-guy Rugar appears–quickly followed by a storm, a kidnapping, and a murder.

 

The Laughter of Dead Kings

Peters, Elizabeth

A final installment of the series featuring irrepressible art historian Vicky Bliss finds her setting off on a wild chase to clear the name of her boyfriend, Sir John Smythe, when he is implicated in a high-profile Egyptian artifact theft, a case that is complicated by Vicky’s gnawing doubts about John’s innocence.

 

An Unexpected Love

Peterson, Tracie / Miller, Judith A.

No annotation

 

A Promise to Believe In

Peterson, Tracie

No Annotation

 

Heat Lightning

Sandford, John

Summoned by Lucas Davenport to investigate a pair of murders in which the victims are found with lemons in their mouths, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers struggles to find a connection that could prevent additional killings.

 

Testimony

Shreve, Anita

A sex scandal rocks a posh New England boarding school, and, what’s worse, there’s a videotape. The result? Divorces, wrecked careers, and one death.

 

The Lucky One

Sparks, Nicholas

Coming into the possession of a photograph of a smiling woman he has never met, a man experiences a chain of fortuitous events that cause him to regard the photograph as a lucky charm, a belief that prompts a heartfelt search for the woman in person.

 

Hot Mahogany

Woods, Stuart

Hired by his sometime ally and CIA boss to protect his older brother, an Army intelligence operative who is suffering from amnesia, Stone Barrington learns about his charge’s talent for restoring antiques and his links to a haunting event in Vietnam more than thirty years earlier.